Anchor for safety-pin attachments.



PATENTED'SEPT. s, 1903.

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ANCHOR FOR SAFETY PIN ATTACHMENTS.

APPLICATION rum) MAY 13,1903

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' UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903. V

PATENT OFFICE.

\ WILLIAM S. HUNKINS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

ANCHOR FOR SAFETY-PIN ATTACH MENTSQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,542, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed May 13, 1908- Serial No. 156,898. (No model.)

T0 on whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. I-IUNKINS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anchors for Safety-Pin Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to attachments for safety-pins for articles of wearing-apparel.

It is the object of my invention to provide an attachment for a corset, waist, or other garment, which attachment will serve as an an chor and bearing for a safety-pin. This anchorage is carried in such a manner that when a safety-pin is secured thereto for the purpose of supporting any other garment it prevents not only the supportinggarment from becoming puckered, so as to take a short bearing on the pin, but it also prevents the pin from buckling or bending. In addition to this, the anchorage or attachment may be so placed on the supporting-garment that a pin may be secured thereto on an inclined or oblique line rather than on a horizontal line without causing a puckering of the garment or a drag tending to buckle or bend the pin. The means by which these advantageous ends are attained will be understood from reference to the drawings and a reading of the following specification, which shows and describes a preferred form of my invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a conventional illustration of a portion of a garment-for example, an underwaist-fitted with my improved attachment. Fig. .Zis asection thereof. Fig. 3 is an elevation of details.

A represents a portion of an underwaist. To this is secured in any well-known way a tab or strap B.

O is a bushing, preferably tubular, which is secured firmly in a tab B, so as to be practically a part of the garment A. Any wellknown means may be employed to secure the bushing in place. As shown, a flange O is provided, having in it suitable perforations D D, through which the thread maybe passed.

In the drawings I have shown a safety-pin,

of which E represents the frame, E the pin proper, ancl'E the shield carried by the frame E, its purpose being to sheath the end of the pin when attachment is effected.

.CIII'S.

As is well known, a common fault with safety-pins is due to the fact that they are easily bent when subjected to any substantial strain, particularly if the support takes a short bearing on the pin. This short bearing is produced not only by taking too short a bite of the garment when the pin is inserted, but also by the tilting or bending of the pin in use, which tends to pucker the bite in the garment, so that when a strain occurs the pin bends so far that the point is freed from the shield E whereupon disconnection oc- It is to correct this serious defect and common fault that I have devised the anchorage attachment, which cooperates with the pin in such a manner as to always insure a long bearing and which not only distributes the strain throughout the length of the pin, but also holds the pin in such a way that it cannot bend or buckle. Hence the pin cannot become disconnected in the manner before described. Beyond this the anchorage attachment facilitates the intentional detachment of the pin, since it gives to the user a broad bearing to engage with the finger in depressing the point of the pin to free it from the shield.

In the drawings and to show the operation I have indicated a safety-pin. In Fig. 1 the safet *-pin is shown in place, in which it will be seen the pin proper, E, takes a long bearing in the bushing O. The bushing O is best seen in detail view, Fig. 3. In this view the pin is unfastened and partially withdrawn.

It is a common thing to secure hose-supporters to underwaists by means of safety-pins, the hose-supporter being permanently connected to thelframe E of the safety-pin, while the pin is relied upon as an attaching means.

The presence of the bushing on or in the garment prevents the garment from puckering, so as to take a short bearing on the pin, previously alluded to. The bushing may be secured to the garment upon an oblique line, so that when the pin is applied, although it will pull on said oblique line, the garment will still be prevented from puckering.

What I claim is--- a 1. In combination, a safety-pin, an anchor attachment therefor comprising a bushing supporting the pin proper throughout a substantial portion of the length thereof, said bushing being open at each end to permit of ready introduction or removal of the pin.

2.- In combination, a safety-pin, an anchor attachment therefor comprising a bushing supporting the pin proper through a substantial portion of the length thereof, said bushing being open at each end to permit the ready introduction or removal of the pin and means for fastening said bushing to a garment.

3. In combination, a safety-pin, an anchor attachment therefor comprising a bushing supporting the pin proper through a substan- 

